| Show I Card Becomes Giant Ace By GRANTLAND RICE PHE STORY of big Jim Hearn Is one of the more interesting baseball yarns of In addition to Its human Interest it also gives an important sideline on the part that luck or fate or the breaks of the game bring player attempting Grantland Ulce around He also had his share of stuff from the He was a good friend of Bobby Jones and played golf in the low s at Druid Hills Hearn is one of the nicest young fellows you'll He is on the quiet or reserved although friendly enough at all I know a couple of years back that Eddie Dyer had considerable confidence In his budding young Big Jim had one or two pretty fair Not big seasons But not too Then a year ago he wasn't He won one and lost three last then was sent to Rochester to finish out the This season Hearn spent most of the time on the He might as well have been left In the He wasn't getting enough He lacked control and lack of steady work was largely Now it could easily have happened that the Cardinals again would ship the Georgia Tech star back to the minor But the Giants took a chance and called him The keen eyes of Leo Dur-ocher had seen things in Hearn's head and heart that others had There was no midnight parade for Hearn when he arrived with the He was Just another Cardinal But he wasn't to Leo He look Hearn from the bench to the rifle He put him to In short order the big college boy was one of the star of the Oddly he has been the leading aces on the Cardinal Just why the Cardinals iet such a stout right arm go is beyond Eddie Dyer is one of the smartest of the Fred is a close watchman in the matter of nis But they let a or a pitcher go for just as he was heading tor the minors More than one fine ballplayer has been dropped from big league company for various reasons that are beyond his Hearn's case isn't the only one I've known Case of Sammy You may not believe it but Sammy present amateur golf holds one of the oddest records in the venerable For In back over past champions recently I discovered I had played golf with most of them Charles Blair II G. Walter C. S. M. Jerry R. A. W. C. Francis Chick Jess Jess Bobby Johnny Goodman and Max In that long line not a one arrived unheralded or as unheralded as Most of those who won were given a Most of them had played winning golf Not too much had been heard about Ted who won at Baltusrol in But you knew more than a little about most of the Unknowns don't win amateur titles as Francis Ouimet won the Open in But in checking back through dope I couldn't find anyone giving Sam a chance of any That Isn't all of the In every amateur championship Ik-ally every winner has to have one or two lucky I mean that he has to win while not playing too But there was no such rickety playing on the part of who had won the state amateur some time In round after round he stuck with par cr Walking into Odds A short while back we were playing golf with a pair of club-swingers who seemed to take double interest in ail the short One landed a tee shot about 10 inches from the cup and almost picked up a We found out later that both had been insured at to 1 against a hole in Which means that they were to get for 1 If they could deposit the ball into the cup in one in the last 16 years the New York World Telegram has put on 16 In this time players have taken a crack at the mystic firing a total of shots in the vague hope of How many have found an open Just five |
